Alex Cox Quotes

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

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• After Brown, I went to Duke, to a Ph.D. program in American literature. My dad's an English professor. After a year there, I was like, 'Jesus. I don't want to do this. I don't want to be in the library.' So I pulled the ripcord, and that was it.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Dad
  • Jesus

• I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Men
  • Business
  • English

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I took English courses in college, but I don't have an English degree. I have a degree in economics.

  

  Patrick Carman
  • College
  • English
  • Economics

• The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • English
  • Language
  • Special

• I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Person

• I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Culture
  • Me
  • English

• Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • People
  • Work
  • Women

• In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Family
  • Think
  • English

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it has always been around my experience as a young man.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • School
  • Experience
  • History

• I'm in fact Australian but my mother's English so I've got no problem playing a domineering English woman.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Mother
  • Problem
  • Woman

• I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • Never
  • English

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Good
  • Together
  • Interesting

• I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Family
  • City

• Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Life
  • Me
  • English

• English is not my first language.

  

  Camila Alves
  • English
  • Language
  • First

• I've always had self-belief, though my sensitive side has never been fully appreciated. For every 'Down in the Tube Station at Midnight,' I've written an 'English Rose.' People forget.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • People
  • English
  • Rose

• Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.

  

  Jim Clyburn
  • High
  • Education
  • Fighting

• The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.

  

  Jean-Paul Belmondo
  • American
  • Movie
  • Horse

• Our purpose is to educate as well as to entertain. Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do. If you're going to come away from a party singing the lyrics of a song, it is better that you sing of self-pride like 'We're a Winner' instead of 'Do the Boo-ga-loo!'

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Good
  • Song
  • Party

• Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

  

  Alex Cox
  • English